What is "ladleful"

Usage examples of "ladleful".

There could be no misreading the angry looks the general gave him over each ladleful of fermented milk.

He gulped a ladleful of kumiss and waited for Koja to get to the point.

When that happened Polly always longed to lob a ladleful of hot roughage at them and inform them that they were a bunch of brainless no-dicks, but that sort of behaviour was not how things were done.

With each ladleful of soup that went into his stomach, with each mouthful of bread or meat crushed between his gums, with each glass of cider or wine that flowed through his gullet he thought he was regaining something of his own property, getting back a little of his money which all those gluttons were devouring, saving in fact a portion of his own means.

Elna brought up a ladleful of black stuff with evil-smelling water on top of it.

Dennis got his at quarter past twelve: three careful slices of white turkey breast, one careful ladleful of brown gravy, a scoop of instant mashed potatoes the exact size and shape of a baseball (lacking only the red stitches, he thought with sour amusement), a like scoop of frozen squash that was an arrogant fluorescent orange, and a small plastic container of cranberry jelly.

She beat the waffle mixture with a wire whisk and then poured a ladleful into the waffle iron and dropped its heavy lid.